| Masque of the Red Death | |
| Director: | Alan Birkinshaw |
| Producer: | Avi Lerner Harry Alan Towers |
| Screenplay: | Michael J. Murray |
| Music: | Kobi Recht |
| Cinematography: | Yossi Wein |
| Editing: | Jason Krasucki |
| Starring: | Frank Stallone Brenda Vaccaro Herbert Lom |
| Studio: | 21st Century Film Corporation |
| Distributor: | 21st Century Film Corporation |
| Runtime: | 94 minutes |
| Language: | English |
The Masque of the Red Death was a 1989 film directed by Alan Birkinshaw, starring Frank Stallone, Brenda Vaccaro and Herbert Lom, produced by Avi Lerner and Harry Alan Towers for Menahem Golan's 21st Century Film Corporation, from a script by Michael J. Murray.[1] It was one of two otherwise unrelated films with the same title released that year.
The film is a slasher movie set in the 1980s, with little to do with Poe's work other than being set at a costume party themed after Poe's short story of the same name, and a reference to "The Pit and the Pendulum".[2] In Touchstones of Gothic Horror, David Huckvale states that the film may have been influenced by the short story "Duke of Portland" by Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam.[3]